Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the good Bishop more familiar with modern fox-hunting he would know that preserving foxes, rather than killing them, is the major concern of most organized hunts. In America, where earth stopping is not practised, when a fox is hard pressed he goes to ground,- (''hole" to you. Bishop, Matthew 8:20, and Luke 9:58), -and lives to run another day. The real object of a foxhunter is not to kill a fox, but to observe the wonderful skill and perseverance of a well-trained pack of hounds after a quarry conceded to be the most...
...been found, buried in the snow near Kellogg, Idaho, with both men dead. On Dec. 19, an Eastern Air Lines Douglas cracked up in New York, killed no one due to the landing skill of Pilot Dick Merrill. On Dec. 23, a Braniff Air Lines Lockheed plumped to earth at Dallas on a test flight, killed six. Total toll for the year on scheduled passenger transport planes was 59-high-est in history...
...small planets) spinning around the sun as devotedly as if they were big planets. Mostly their orbits lie between Mars and Jupiter. The egg-shaped orbit of Eros, however, swings it far inside the Martian track and it is possible for it to approach within 14,000.000 miles of Earth. After its discovery in 1898. asteroid watchers noticed that sometimes Eros varied in brightness over a period of 5¼ hr. If this was the period of its rotation, the variation might have been due to one side being much darker than the other -or to the end-over...
...Eros swooped within 16,000,000 miles of Earth and two astronomers at Johannesburg were able to make out an elongation which changed in direction, completing a rotation...
...over in Italy, where the conqueror of Abbyssinia rattles his bayonets, the earthly representative of the Prince of Peace lies dying, Plus XI, at the age of 79, reaching the end of his uneventful pontificate, waits to be gathered to his fathers. The eyes of the world, or of such part of it as still believes in the importance of the influence wielded by the vicar of Christ on earth, watch anxiously for his successor...